29Synonyms found for chicanery

Word Origin & History

chicanery 1609, from Fr. chicanerie "trickery," from M.Fr. chicaner "to pettifog, quibble" (15c.), perhaps from M.L.G. schikken "to arrange, bring about," or from the name of a golf-like game once played in Languedoc.

Example Sentences for chicanery

The cut-off is arbitrary, and leads to much accounting chicanery.

Auditors uncovered telltale hints of financial chicanery.

Politics has always been lousy with blather and chicanery.

The struggle between these faction is marked by pleasingly intricate chicanery.

Of all the directors, they say, he should have been able to detect chicanery.